Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Queering Heterosexuality in New Transgressive Cinema
JOEL GWYNNE
PART I: EXTREME BODIES, EXTREME DESIRE
Chapter 1
The New Anglo-American Cinema of Sexual Addiction
ALISTAIR FOX
Chapter 2
Carnotopia: The Culture of Sadism in
Nymphomaniac, Shame
and
Thanatomorphose
MARK FEATHERSTONE
Chapter 3
Feed:
A Representation of Feederism or Fatsploitation?
NIALL RICHARDSON
Chapter 4
Proving their ‘Virility’? Steve McQueen’s
Hunger
and Transgressive Masculinity
ALISON GARDEN
Chapter 5
Male-Nutrition: Extreme Weight Loss, Socio-Cultural Transgression and the Male Body in Recent American Cinema
TOM STEWARD
Chapter 6
Surgery, Blood and Patriarchal Sex:
Excision
and
American Mary
ALICE HAYLETT BRYAN
PART II: ADOLESCENCE, AGEING AND QUEER AGENCY
Chapter 7
A Child is Being Raped! Homosexual Panic in
Mystic River
VULCAN VOLKAN DEMIRKAN-MARTIN
Chapter 8
Crash-and-Burn Girls and Culpable Parenthood: Negotiating Sexualisation Discourses in Independent Cinema
JOEL GWYNNE
Chapter 9
‘Please be a good boy’: Challenging Perceptions of Paedophilia in Contemporary US Cinema
AMY C. CHAMBERS
Chapter 10
Nowhere Teens: Following Gregg Araki’s Queer Adolescents through the End of a Century
ARNAU ROIG-MORA
Chapter 11
Unsettling Heteronormativity: Abject Age and Transgressive Desire in
Notes on a Scandal
EVA KRAINITZKI
Index